DESCRIPTION
I have always been drawn to Vermeer, J.´s paintings, and I borrowed, "Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window" (c1657-1659), as my inspiration to making this picture, for in recreating my own version, I discovered what it was which resonated with me.
What struck me initially, was a sense of how time stands stil: so much has changed, yet seemingly so little in the last 400 years. It felt surreal, as if I had stepped into a time machine which was warped: I could relate to how familiar his setting appeared to me, yet it felt like a contradiction, as it should have appeared more archaic.
What has stayed with me in observing his painting, especially in the light of the pandemic, is the contradiction in how technology has allowed me to remain connected to the outside world, but at the same time feel so detached from it, a sense of unrest envelopes me, for I question my reality: by using technology as a means to connect to friends and events, ironically I also feel more disconnected to what is real and removed from what is familiar. It is this surreal existence which is unsettling.
AUTHOR
Read Pure Mathematics at RHBNC London University, worked in the finance sector until giving up my full-time job to continue with my Photography degree course and set up my photographic studio.
Exhibitions
El Ayuntamiento de Arucas, Spain
El Ayuntamiento de Adeje, Spain
´Companion Print Exhibition and Open International Book Exhibition 2016´, at the Espacio Gallery, London, organised by the Royal Photographic Society.
Golf Costa de Adeje, This is a Flower, 2018
Eclectico Cafe, Spain, 2018
AWARDS
Shortlisted, RPS, Review of the Year 2016 and International Print Exhibition 160
Gold winner Tokyo International Foto Awards, 2017, Portfolio-Personal, She has Flown
Honourable Mention, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2017, untitled image
Selected by the BJP, Open Walls Arles, 2018
Bronze winner Tokyo International Foto Awards 2018 People/portrait, "Finding her Identity"
Bronze winner Moscow International Foto Awards 2019 Fine Art/Special effects, "Lost in a Forest"
Bronze Award TOKYO-2020 Fine Art / Special Effects for, Childhood Memory
Bronze Award, TIFA, Fine-Art/Special Effects, Losing Herself, 2020
Series, "My Mother", published in the Royal Photographic Society DIG News. December 2018
Series, "This is a Flower", published in the Royal Photograph Society, 2019
Series, "Living in Parallels", The Royal Photographic Society, International Members, 2020
